Students can undertake
a minor in Law & Society to supplement another major course of study.
While most law & society minors will focus their major courses of
study in history, government, classics, international relations, sociology,
anthropology, or economics, law & society is a distinct asset to the
study of such diverse fields women & gender studies, religion, literature,
environmental sciences, as well as many other disciplines.
Law & society
is well integrated into the core of the liberal arts approach to the social
sciences and humanities. Students undertake a rigorous series of seminars
introducing them to a range of methodologies to approach the fundamental
questions of the nature of law, justice, and obligation; the impact of
dispute resolution structures and the range of administrative discretion,
as well as the paradoxical nature of legal norms and social boundaries.
The course of study
for the minor requires eighteen credit hours--six three-hour seminars,
which includes two required introductory seminars and a capstone seminar.
Courses
LAWS 201--Foundations of Law & Society
LAWS 202--Legal Theory & Public Policy
LAWS 352--Social Movements & the Law
